Community Corner

Yeshiva Har Torah students, staff, and mothers participated in a group hair donation this past week. The donated ponytails will now be delivered to Zichron Menachem in Israel to make wigs for children with cancer. All participants were treated to haircuts donated by the DeFranco Spagnolo Salon in Great Neck and the school’s PTA, gift bags courtesy of Sarit Ebrani and Talia Levy of Manot4Chai, and flowers from Metro Florals. All told, the PTA collected about two dozen ponytails to donate.

Thursday, April 4, may have been an ordinary day for most people, but for the children at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, it was an extraordinary day. When the students of Shevach High School heard about an opportunity to run a carnival in the hospital in order to cheer up the children there, they immediately jumped at the opportunity. As with all chasadim conducted by the Shevach girls, this too promised to be greatly rewarding.

With a heavy heart, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, welcomes the return of the remains of a Brooklyn-born Israel Defense Forces soldier who has been missing since Israel’s 1982 war against terrorist-backed Syrian forces in Lebanon.

On Wednesday night, March 27, the fourth-grade artists and performers dazzled parents, grandparents, and guests with a spectacular gala art exhibit and musical production.

This Pesach 5779, a much-anticipated book by Rabbi Ben Zion Shafier – noted author, veteran educator, and founder of The Shmuz – will line the shelves of Jewish book stores across the country.

A delegation of seniors from HAFTR High School participated in the first annual Simon Wiesenthal Center High School Leadership Summit, hosted by Yeshiva University last Tuesday. The Simon Wiesenthal Center inaugurated the regional summit to prepare students to respond to the challenges of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activities facing Jewish students on college campuses. In addition to HAFTR High School, the summit included seniors from Ramaz, Magen David, Central, and Frisch yeshivah high schools.